Gun Control Debate

[Voronwë the Faithful]

A good friend of ours was at the festival, though she left before the shooting happened.

I've lost the ability to process the mix of emotions that these shootings generate - anger, mixed with profound sadness, despair and utter bemusement that people refuse to take reasonable action to stop, or least slow, these preventable tragedies.

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[River]

It'll stop when enough people stop bowing before the Gun God and his priests.

[Dave_LF]

The people do want gun control, but we're not living in a democracy anymore.

2 more mass shootings today.

[River]

Okay. It'll stop when the right people stop bowing before the Gun God and his priests.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Where, Dave? I see that there were shootings at two houses in a town in Wisconsin yesterday leaving 5 dead including the shooter, but I haven't seen anything today (which might just mean that the news hasn't trickled down to me yet).

[Dave_LF]

There was one at a Wal-Mart in Mississippi. It looks like the second one I saw, at a playground in NYC, actually happened on Sunday, but I didn't hear about it until today because the media were busy talking about the other one that happened that day.

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[Voronwë the Faithful]

[RoseMorninStar]

Can't even keep with with them anymore. Helpless, hopeless, pointless.

[Maria]

This isn't a debate thread anymore, you know. Maybe a title change is in order?

[Frelga]

Several people are dead after a shooting in El Paso, Texas, officials say

[RoseMorninStar]

Several people are dead after a shooting in El Paso, Texas, officials say

*sigh* I looked up a couple of news articles on the shooting and I was saddened and disgusted to see the comments, virtually all in support of more guns, I hope they are Russian bots and not real people. Ostensibly their view was to 'prevent' this sort of thing with More Guns!. For what it's worth, there were people (off duty military) on site who were (legally) carrying a weapon but they said their were so many kids running around they were more concerned with protecting the children/getting them out of harms way than to start shooting.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

20 dead and more than two dozen injured.



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[Frelga]

The store was full of families doing back to school shopping.

So far, the reports about the murderer are exactly what we've come to expect.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Investigators 'reasonably confident' Texas suspect left anti-immigrant screed, tipped off before attack

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[Jude]

And merely hours later, people killed and 6 wounded in Dayton, Ohio.

Lali, are you okay?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I saw her post on Facebook.

[Dave_LF]

Stolen from a friend:

Cory Booker on MtP says Trump is sowing the seeds of hate in our country. That’s untrue. He’s just watering them. And fertilizing them with his bullshit.

[Frelga]

Ian Fleming comes to mind.

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."

[yovargas]

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[River]

I wonder what the goal these home-grown extremists have. "We're losing the argument so we're just going to scare people into submission?" Or is it "OPEN SEASON ON KIDS!! YEEHAW!!!"

I feel like I accomplished something by taking the entire fam to Target for school supplies and not getting shot at. WTaF?

ETA: On a more personal note, one of my cousins is in El Paso, working at Ascension House (Jesuit-run migrant shelter). He was on his way to the WalMart when the shooting happened and got warned off. The facility he works at has stepped up security just in case the next lone wolf fascist decides to shoot the migrants.

Edit again: actually, it's Annunciation House. Sorry.